Session+3+ISA+14

(see the list of all sessions at http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/ISA+2014 ) Title:

Monday, July 14, 2014: 05:30 PM - 07:20 PM, Yokohama, Booth 65
Session Organizer Anup DASH, Utkal University, India, **Email:** dashanup@hotmail.com -- Will not be published Chair: Stefan LÜCKING, Hans Böckler Foundation, Germany, stefan-luecking@boeckler.de Format: Oral Is this an invited session?: N Language: English Research Committee: RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Abstract id# 39144 The Discussion to Implement Charging for the Use of Water Resources: Challenges in Participatory Management
 * Sara FREITAS**, PROMUSPP, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil and Ana Paula FRACALANZA, PROCAM, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract Text: The participatory institutions appear as one of the greatest innovations occurred in Brazilian democracy since the 1980´s, and have as a principle the joint action between state and civil society and the sharing of responsibilities in the design and management of public policies. São Paulo State´s Water Resources Policy has the premise that water management should be decentralized, integrated and participatory, through the Watershed Committees. One of the tasks of the Watershed Committees is to establish the charging for the use of water, the economic instrument of water resources policy, which aims to encourage the rational and sustainable use of water. This study aims to analyze the discussion for the implementation of charging for the use of water in the Basin Committee of the Upper Tietê, located at the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, in the period 2006-2010, in order to examine how the participatory process was and how the participation of the state, municipalities and civil society occurred. This article aims to identify the specificity of the participatory process through the analysis of Watershed Committee meeting´s minutes and to compare it with a theoretical reference. The hypothesis is that the state failed to provide igualitary conditions for the representation of participants in the Watershed Committee of the Upper Tietê in the drafting and implementation of water use charging. Furthermore, the inaction of state institutions may have contributed to the slowness of the process. The evaluation of the discussing process for water charging in the Upper Tietê Basin corroborates to the debate about the actual influence of participatory institutions in public policies and the prospects for improving the existing relationship between government and civil society and the conditions for the exercise of democracy in environmental issues.

Abstract id# 49648 Institutionalizing Community Participation and Sustainable Irrigation Management: A Case Study from India
 * Niharranjan MISHRA**, Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor, Sociology, National Institute of Technolology, Rourkela, Odisha, India., Rourkela, India

Abstract Text: Community participation has become a key method in contemporary development projects. Most of the projects have given emphasis on community participation. Learning through experiences for proper operation and maintenance of irrigation systems and supply of irrigation water in adequate quantity according to a farmer's need on time in a predictable, reliable and equitable manner, decentralised governance of irrigation infrastructure have recently been emphasised as an essential precondition. Centre as well as some States in India has adopted various Acts to encourage farmers’ participation in irrigation management. Using anthropological techniques, the present paper attempts to see the villagers’ participation in traditional system of irrigation management among the tribal communities in kalahandi district of Western Orissa. It also critically examines the intervention of new institutions in irrigation management and their impact on age-old traditional system of community management. It is observed in our study that the collective action or community participation was quite prevalent in the traditional system of irrigation management of tribal communities. The local knowledge, community cohesion, social capitals, traditional practices, values and beliefs were playing the most important roles in the traditional system of management. The government sponsored Water Users’ Association, which is not devised based on the local culture and needs of the local tribal communities, is not able to evoke their participation in the Water Users’ Association. The culture of ignorance, drinking alcohol, feeling marginal, poverty, illiteracy, the improper co-ordination between irrigation officials and beneficiaries, Physical structure of canals, dominance of head reach, higher caste large farmers have influenced the participation of marginal farmers. Moreover, some of the factors like social norms define domestic works and childcare as women’s work and social perceptions discount women’s abilities and opinions restricts women’s participation in WUAs.

Abstract id# 65191 Constructing Shared Narratives of Sustainable Local Development
 * Valentina ANZOISE**, European Center for Living Technology, Italy; European Center for Living Technology, Venice, Italy and **Stefania SARDO**, European Centre for Living Technology, VENEZIA, Italy

Abstract Text: Contemporary societies are facing and generating social and environmental crises, which involve multiple dimensions and different actors at various levels. Policies have to deal with them and guide communities transformations. Therefore, in Developing as well as in Western countries, it is not just a matter of finding and providing financial resources, but to tailor them according to contexts and addressing communities’ governance and capabilities building. Moreover, policies’ orientations and goals should always consider the consequences and transformations (material and immaterial) that can be induced by their implementation – and that cannot be foreseen a priori – and therefore should develop the capacity of being adaptive and self-reflexive. But how to? And how can local communities participate in the design and implementation of their own change? The aim of this paper is that of providing some theoretical and methodological reflections on how to conduct and proactively observe local development processes, focusing on two case studies based in Southern Italy’s mountain and rural areas: the Green Communities (GC) project, a one year long project, top-down driven, funded by the Italian Ministry of Environment and the EU, and Rural Design, a bottom-up driven project initiated by some of the political representatives, technicians and “active citizens” previously involved in the GC project. Through them we will discuss different orientations to sustainable local development, but also a new evaluation approach, the Dynamic Evaluation (DE), developed within the Emergence by Design project (FP7-ICT-2011-C program). The DE is based on the complex systems approach and on the hypothesis that the iterative generation of feedback loops contribute to the construction (and enactment) of shared narratives that can help in dealing with unpredictable settings, where goals and consequences are emerging and changing rather than being predetermined and fixed.

Abstract id# 68475 The Adoption of ISO 14001 Across Korean Business Firms
 * Kynming BAEK,** Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Abstract Text: This study asks why Korean organizations adopt environmental self-regulation programs; I focus specifically on ISO 14001. My analysis draws on a unique longitudinal data set to offer a new institutional explanation of the spread of ISO 14001 across Korean business firms. I argue that Korean firms have adopted this program in response to the passage of The Promotion Act for Conversion to Environmental-Friendly Industry Structure of 1995. ISO 14001 is more to have been adopted when large firms in that industry have adopted it and when firms have a connection with management standards consultants who have marketed international standards. These findings extend recent theorizing about legal ambiguity and the mechanisms of “coercive isomorphism.”

Abstract id# 50422 Paper withdrawn Labor Market Compared in East Asian Societies
 * Eun-Jin LEE**, Department of Sociology, Kyungnam University, Changwon City, Gyeongnam, South Korea

Abstract Text: Labor relations have been embedded in the social context. If we accept such proposition, then we distinguish each country' characteristics of labor relations in Japan, China, and Korean societies. I would like to propose two basic assumptions: (1) three countires share the common characterrists of aging trends regardless of their level of economic development. And at the same time, each society have some common nature of mismatch phenomenainthe labor market. There are labor shortage in East seashore ares and oversupply of labor in West inlands in China, while we observe labor shortage of high skilled and menial job in Korea and at the same time oveall labor shotage in Japan. (2) There is a some disputed, but largely agreed propostion that bsarrier to occupation (trade) mobility is conventionally severe in Japan, while China has somewhat fluid society in conventionaly sense. China now has a difficulty on the social mobility because of household registration scheme. Korea is sited inbetween. These two statements will be tentative to remain to be proved. So this paper will address labor relaiton issue by utilizing those two structural and historical propositions. If we are successful in analysing the labor relations by utilizing demographic trends and historical background, we will be able to reveal and predict the reality beneath the phenomenal labor relations in each society. I will adopt the demographic data, and historical analysis for explaining the labor relations. And I will define labor relations into three areas: the nature of labor process, external and internal labor market, and external environments (corporate culture, access to geographical mobilization, and the state intervention in the labor issues). These three countries are suitable for analytical comparisons, since they have differences in level of technology, tradition of labor harmony, state character. I will try to abstract the complex situation as simply as possible.


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